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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by starfallg on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:12PM (#22425589)
If the Wuhan authorities quarantined everybody that traced back to attending the mass dinners at the same early stage in the same way that the Italian and South Korean authorities are doing now, then the people infected in Hubei be at 60,000 or so now.

The quarantine came in too little too late to control the situation in Wuhan, and only helped to contain the virus in other provinces of China, not fully contain it.

Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by infinity0 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:10PM (#22428964)
> the people infected in Hubei be at 60,000 or so now.

The people infected in Hubei are at about 60k or so now. Actually slightly lower. Were you trying to say something else??

60k is pretty impressive considering all the other apocalyptic "worse case" scenarios being published in various academic journals a few weeks ago based on "conservative models".

Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by starfallg on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:57AM (#22432251)
Won't be.

And 60k is not pretty impressive considering that many people already died without a proper diagnosis and was not included in the official counts. There is no trust that the reported numbers are reflective of the situation on the ground - in fact it is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by infinity0 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @08:38AM (#22450451)
It is impressive, Wuhan has 11 million people. Would you have done better?

> There is no trust that the reported numbers are reflective of the situation on the ground - in fact it is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

The numbers are confirmed test cases, which will always be an underestimate of the true situation regardless of the government supplying the numbers. There's no indication to suggest that it's the "tip of the iceberg" especially since the "current case" numbers have been consistently decreasing for the past several weeks.

It rather seems that you've been so convinced by the sheer amount of anti-Chinese-government-propaganda, that even positive facts can't change your prejudice that everything they do is negative.